2024 Aspirations & reference points

Balancing Multiple Goals: The Effects of Performance Shortfalls Relative to Aspirations vs. Analysts' Earnings Forecasts

Elizabeth Lim

Journal of Management Studies

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A comparison of alternative measures of organizational aspirations Philip Bromiley, Jared D. Harris · 2013
The impacts of performance relative to analyst forecasts and analyst coverage on firm R&D intensity Richard J. Gentry, Wei Shen · 2012
Adding by Subtracting: The Relationship Between Performance Feedback and Resource Reconfiguration Through Divestitures Elena Vidal, Will Mitchell · 2015
Situational and institutional determinants of firms' R&D search intensity Weiru Chen, Kent D. Miller · 2007
VARIABLE ORGANIZATIONAL RISK PREFERENCES: TESTS OF THE MARCH-SHAPIRA MODEL. Kent D. Miller, Weiru Chen · 2004
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All Aspirations are not Created Equal: The Differential Effects of Historical and Social Aspirations on Acquisition Behavior Ji‐Yub Kim, Sydney Finkelstein, Jerayr Haleblian · 2014

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Looking Backward Instead of Forward: Aspiration-Driven Influences on the Efficiency of the Capital Allocation Process Mathias Arrfelt, Robert M. Wiseman, G. Tomas M. Hult · 2012
Determinants of Firms' Backward- and Forward-Looking R&D Search Behavior Weiru Chen · 2008
Performance, Aspirations, and Risky Organizational Change Henrich R. Greve · 1998
Driven by aspirations, but in what direction? Performance shortfalls, slack resources, and resource‐consuming vs. resource‐freeing organizational change Pasi Kuusela, Thomas Keil, Markku Maula · 2016
Entering new markets: The effect of performance feedback near aspiration and well below and above it Ohad Ref, Zur Shapira · 2016
CEO option wealth and firm risk-taking: An analysis of multiple reference points Elizabeth Lim · 2017
Social pay reference point, external environment, and risk taking: An integrated behavioral and social psychological view Elizabeth Lim · 2018
Renewing Research on Problemistic Search—A Review and Research Agenda Hart E. Posen et al. · 2017
Stock Return or Sales Growth? Multiple Performance Feedback and Strategic Investments Under Securities Analysts’ Earnings Pressure Yu Zhang, Yan Gong · 2018
Problem-Solving or Self-Enhancing? Influences of Diversification and Bright Spot on Corporate Resource Allocation Responses to Performance Shortfalls Elizabeth Lim, Pino G. Audia · 2020
Corporate Structure and Performance Feedback: Aspirations and Adaptation in M-Form Firms Vibha Gaba, John Joseph · 2012
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Multiple Goals Pino G. Audia, Henrich R. Greve · 2021
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback Henrich R. Greve · 2003
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A Behavioral Theory of the Firm Richard H. Day et al. · 1964
PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK, SLACK, AND THE TIMING OF ACQUISITIONS. Dinesh N. Iyer, Kent D. Miller · 2008
Stretch Goals, Factual/Counterfactual Reflection Strategies, and Firm Performance Miles M. Yang · 2023

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